As 2009 winds down, we’re taking a look back at all that’s happened in the last year. Here are some of the most popular stories we covered
I play just one instrument. It’s an original Nicola Gagliano from 1770 and one of the few instruments from the period that escaped modernization. It’s original right down to most of its finish and a great partner. With it, I’m free to be the beneficiary of the stimulating musical and instrumental choices that we made together.
Director Randy White with choreographer Esther Widlanski have put together a tight show. There is the almost “Marge and Gower Champion” dancing of Rolf and Liesl, the tight Broadway numbers for Max and Elsa, folkie dancing of the children, and the magical moments on the dance floor when the Captain and Maria realize their love.
Strolling under the canopy during the holiday season, the carol “Silver Bells” might come to mind. But “city sidewalks, busy sidewalks” and the commercial hustle-bustle those lyrics evoke would have been a remote vision in the Bloomington of the 1970s, and early 80s.
From Playboy to The Zack Files, former men’s magazine writer now gets accolades and hugs from ten-year-olds
When Maria falls in love, it frightens her. She’s a grown woman going through all the tensions of a teen ager. It’s interesting that she and the Captain’s oldest daughter are going through some of the same emotions.
We’ll hear music of the season from the distant past and through the ages, both sublime, and earthly. Across time and place, across beliefs and traditions, with selections from Handel’s Messiah, carols of the Renaissance and Middle Ages, and modern compositions inspired by the songs of centuries past.
Performers represent styles ranging from traditional folk singers to opera singers, and local favorites such as the ensemble El Taller from the Latin American Music Center at Indiana University, singer Yuriria Rodriguez, guitarists Espen Jensen and Guido Sanchez, the baroque ensemble L’Aura, and others.
Upon first glance, the Wylie House looks like any other antebellum house museum. But it’s the museum’s heirloom garden that draws seekers of living history.
A fashionably antique costumed French couple Ben Schillmoeller and Amelia Vanderbilt arrive and are swept into the madness as the man demands to be married to one of the women and the wife mixes in as well. With echoes of the theme of European conquerors debauched by their conquest there’s a weirdly formal wedding ceremony and dance.
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